Smart Specialisation Strategies will be required from Regions and Cities in order to access funds for Innovation , Science and ICT amongst others, from the EC.  A Smart Specialisation Platform has been developed in order to help this process. Find out more and register here

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The Going Local II programme from DG/INFSO of visiting the member states is now well underway ; you can find information about individual country activity under the country names on the left hand menu. You can also follow on twitter see the right hand boxes.

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DG INFSO will soon be embarking on its Going Local II series of visits to the member states. In addition , to visiting capital cities , there will be some regional visits as result of the feedback from WS24 at the Digital Agenda Assembly. Details of the proposed visits can be found under the [...]

There are many real and perceived barriers to implementing projects at a regional level. One common barrier encountered when looking broadband is stateaid. We are looking for a list of projects that are in need of help as a result of bureaucratic and other barriers. Tell us about your initiative/project and want needs [...]

The European Commission has invited stakeholders’ views on the forthcoming revision of EU rules on the public financing of broadband infrastructure. The current guidelines, adopted in September 2009 (see IP/09/1332) provide a comprehensive framework for furthering the deployment of high and very-high speed broadband in Europe. However, fast evolving markets and rapid technological [...]

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Over 100 people came to the Local Workshop at the DAA , the final slide presented back to the plenary is below

A few highlights …

- LILA CV and Schoolville were presented with their winners prizes in Local Grand Prix

- Strong sense of action needed from regions to push for support [...]

The local workshop ( WS24) will make recommendations for action at a local level  to the plenary session of the DAA . What sort of recommendations would you like to see, start think now and post any ideas as comments ….

Examples might  include

… fund  a dedicated network of regional staff to [...]

Over the last few weeks Friesland, Cataluna and TNO have been working on a draft “Manifesto on Societal Change and Development in a Digital Age”. It is a positive call for action to and from all European Cities and Regions to shape their own future while combining regional realities with European policy goals [...]